The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 23

‘You see how my foes will fare; now behold what I can do for my friends,’ and, stooping down, he laid the golden bowl against the mouth of the soldier, who sat up as well as ever.

Who acts: You, foes, I, Peronnik, soldier · What happens: see, fare, do, stoop down, lay, sit up · To what, where: golden bowl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, foes, I, Peronnik), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 laid	ccomp
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 fare	advmod
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 foes	nmod:poss
6	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fare	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fare	aux
8	fare	fare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 do	advmod
11	behold	behold	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 do	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 friends	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 friends	nmod:poss
18	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 do	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 friends	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 friends	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stooping	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stooping	punct
23	stooping	stoop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 friends	conj
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 stooping	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 laid	nsubj
27	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bowl	det
29	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bowl	amod
30	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 laid	obj
31	against	against	ADP	_	33 mouth	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mouth	det
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bowl	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 soldier	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 soldier	det
36	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mouth	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sat	punct
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 sat	nsubj
39	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 soldier	acl:relcl
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 sat	compound:prt
41	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	39 sat	advmod
42	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 as	fixed
43	as	as	ADP	_	41 as	fixed
44	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	41 as	fixed
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	You				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fare	future	my foes				tree rules
3	do	can	I		now	for my friends	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	stoop down	gerund	I not said here			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lay	past	Peronnik	the golden bowl		against the mouth of the soldier	tree rules
6	sit up	past	the soldier				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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